The first astronauts bound for a trip to the space station are scheduled to board its slick new space taxi in December, and NASA will give SpaceX the chance to ferry private citizens into space along with astronauts.

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As much as the ballroom looks boosted a performer’s personas through volume and excess, the rigid power suits and slicked-back hair of the show’s Wall Street characters defined the money hungry players of the decade.

Clad in denim-on-denim, the Insecure star stepped out at last night's NBA All Star Game, her eyes smoked with vivid fuchsia pigment and her hair slicked back in an extreme ponytail and lengths woven into a thick braid that fell just below the chest.

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Origin and Etymology of slick

Middle English sliken, from Old English *slician; akin to Old High German slīhhan to glide

The caterpillars are covered in a thick slick of hair, so much so that National Geographic called them toupee caterpillars, and also noted that the insect resembles President Donald Trump's famous 'do.

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